Me After You (eBook)

Sultanbai kyzy Altynai (Autor)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
178 Seiten
epubli (Verlag)
978-3-7598-2918-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Daria is a loving wife and mother of two beautiful daughters. She is happy with her quiet life. But her idyllic life is shattered the day when she discovers that she has cancer. Daria was never afraid of death, but suddenly, it became real to her. She makes a to-do list of things she wants to do before she dies. She is fighting against time knowing that eventually she might lose this battle. Every task becomes for her emotional and painful torture that makes her think about a future she will never have. She reflects on her life, and it brings back memories she wished she could forget. Her cancer is progressing quickly, and one evening, she falls asleep, knowing that she will not wake up tomorrow. But before leaving this world forever, she faces her darkest secret, which will die with her.

Altynai is a fresh face in the world of fictional mystery novels, who has always been passionate about writting. She truly believes that every word has a great power to change not only our minds abut also the world around us. Her debut novel, 'Me After You' is touching story, which remains mysterious until the end. Altynai considers her friends and family to be most important to her. When she isn't writing or spending time with her family and friends, she is an adventurous traveler who loves reading and exploring the world around her.

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Déjà Vu

 

To forget we must learn not to remember.

 

It was a very busy working day at the company, and I wished that it would end quickly. In addition to routine work and customer meetings, there were five job interviews scheduled for a marketing intern position posted a month ago. For some mysterious reasons the interviews were scheduled for today with a small amount of time between. My best friend, partner in crime, and colleague, Mariette, even joked that there was a risk to mix up all candidates with each other and offer the job to someone we did not plan to hire. I told her that everything is possible, but we should hope that two heads are better than one. We talked to all candidates asking them many formal questions that they had probably heard not for the first time. They were all young students full of ambitions to gain working experience and to start making their career. They gave more or less the same answers to questions about how they see their professional future, what their strengths and weaknesses are, or why they choose what they choose. It seemed that they all had the same source of information with recommendations for best possible answers to potential questions. Mariette and I could absolutely relate to them as we both were once in their shoes and went through this many times. Often the job interview was a structured procedure with a list of simple standard questions, which require a lot of fantasy, philosophy, and even story telling talent to answer. So, if you are asked why, you are looking for new job, then answers like I have bills to pay, I have not learned how to print money yet, or life is too expensive not to work will appear very poor as it does not show that you have great motivation. Although these are often the most honest and truthful answers. Besides, what could be a better motivation for any job than money? The most common answer is often that you are looking or ready for new challenges, as if the life would not have already provided enough challenges to offer. In my experience the job interview is never something you can be excited about. I rarely felt positive emotions or had any good impressions when it was over. I still wonder why companies care a lot about improving customer journey or user experience of their products and services, and completely ignore creating positive job interview experiences. At least in reality it happens rarely.

After many long hours of talking with each candidate, Mariette and I exchanged thoughts and talked about our impressions. Mariette always could read a person and I trusted her intuition. We agreed to hire the candidate, whose personality not only impressed, but also empowered, us. By reading her CV and between the lines in her touching stories we knew that she had already achieved a lot. However, she could not see it yet. Her name was Aliya. She was from Kyrgyzstan and had come to Germany to study. She was self-confident and modest at the same time. She was just at the beginning of her life journey and still had a lot to learn. But she was ready to try to achieve everything that she wanted and deserved. She would be successful with or without being an intern in our company. Aliya was the only candidate, who honestly said that the information on the company website and job description were about everything and nothing at the same time. I had to laugh because I could not agree more.

It was almost 3 o’clock in the afternoon and I noticed that I had not even eaten lunch. There was also no time to have something small to eat. It was raining heavily outside, and I had not taken an umbrella with me. As people usually say in such situations, trouble does not come alone. I just ordered a taxi and was about to leave the office in 10 minutes when Mariette knocked on the door. She held two glasses and bottle of red wine. I knew she wanted to celebrate the end of this crazy working day and that we had finally found an intern to support us with the pile of work that grew more day by day. That day we also finally signed a contract with a customer for the conceptualization and implementation of new digital processes. This would be a very complex project, which was planned to take two years to complete.

As soon as Mariette opened the door, she saw that I was about to leave office. I was a little ashamed and upset that I had to go as I would not have minded a little celebration. Today we both deserved it as we had won several battles.

I could see a little disappointment in her eyes because her plan was falling apart. With a voice full of sadness, she said:

- I guess no celebration today.

- Honey, we will celebrate our success, but let's postpone it for later. I have an appointment and need to leave already, in 5 minutes.

- Sure, no problem at all. Daria is everything fine?

- Yes, just need to finish some business.

- Okay then, but do not wonder if I will call you drunk later. I need to finish this bottle alone.

- I am always there for you, honey.

- But if you will be still in the mood to join my drinking party sometime later, you will let me know.

- Of course, I will just come over.

- Then I hope we can still celebrate together.

- Agree, will let you know.

- If not, be prepared for my hangover tomorrow.

- Honey, you can always take one day sick leave.

- Sometimes you have brilliant ideas.

While I was packing, Mariette had already drunk one glass. As I left, I thought about how often I had said to her that I am not a red wine drinker. I could drink it, but it was not what I preferred if I would have a choice. But my dearest friend seemed to forget it every time. As far as I knew, she did not have any issues with her memory. Maybe she just hoped that one day I would start to love red wine. But she was more likely to stop loving red wine than I would start drinking it.

On the way to the clinic, I literally fell asleep for some minutes. I was quite tired, especially because I could not sleep last night. The drive took longer than it should have due to traffic jams, and I was afraid I would be late to the appointment. But I also knew probably I would still have to wait for some minutes till the doctor could see me in his office. I arrived 15 minutes later, and the assistant at the reception gave me some papers to fill out and sign. There were about five or six pages that I needed to read and sign. I always wondered how many patients really read and understood what they must sign. I would bet there were not many of them. It seems to be mission impossible to understand what is written in the document when all you see is the large amount of text full of complex sentences consisting of hundreds of smart medical and legal terms you do not understand. It is like reading a book in a total different language. To be on the safe side it would be better always to have a lawyer to translate and explain that language and advise you what to do. People do not read documents even when they have time, to be asked to read and sign in 10 minutes is even more risky. I am afraid that reading and understanding official documents will never get easy. Even one page of a letter can sometime be challenging to understand. I only try to understand a complex letter only if it is an invoice with a large amount of money highlighted in red to be paid as quickly as possible.

I gave the signed papers to the assistant not even knowing what exactly I signed. She asked me to wait and said the doctor will call me in a couple of minutes. When I entered the doctor’s office, I felt that today I would come home with bad news even though strong intuition never was my strength. The only thing I could not even imagine was how bad this news would be; even though I never expect to have any good news from doctors. When you are getting older your health and life expectations just decline almost daily. Time takes what it takes, and nothing can stop it. Although modern science does many possible things to find answers about how not to age and live forever. To be always young and immortal, for this some people even would sell their souls to the devil or anyone, if we have any soul at all. I do not quite understand the sense of being immortal or forever young. Most people cannot already manage with their given life; what will they do with their life if they will live forever? Besides, to escape death we must first predict what or who will kill us. This would require that we must foresee the future and calculate all the possibilities and uncertainties without any chance for mistakes. To me it sounds like mission impossible. We might find a way to keep us young and healthy as long as we want, but we certainly cannot know what will cause our death. But maybe I am being too critical and skeptical. After all, there was a time when we could not imagine, or considered it impossible, flying to the moon, having smartphones, building robots, sending people to mars, or inserting a chip into a person's brain. However, we are now enjoying all the wonders of technology and various science revolutions. Probably I should be careful saying never or impossible. Moreover, even though we live today twice as long as in the past the quality of our life is not getting better. It would seem that we should live better and have more time for ourselves because we have more time.

I saw that the doctor was worried, and I wondered how many patients he had to tell bad news to today. I felt that he was trying to find the right words to start. He had to inform me about the results of my clinical examination. It was a short...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.6.2024
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
• Schlagworte: Drama • fictional • Gehemnis • Krimis • mystery novel • Suspense • Thriller
• ISBN-10: 3-7598-2918-X / 375982918X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-7598-2918-4 / 9783759829184